The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-12-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

OF a lifetime Will prove to you the
strength of my love, Gladys, it shall be
yours. Can you desire more? Can
you Gladys :" That will be
all--'' Young Simpkins Gnstinct-
-a-shr'-Tid-Bits.
An ingenious woman is working a
novel scheme for getting material for
crazy quilt. She has written to many
postmasters asking for a piece of silk,
satin or velvet, and setting forth that
she hopes to get pieces for her quilt
from every State in the Union.
The members of the Moyamensing
Hook and Ladder Company, of Ches-
ter, Pa, are mourning the death of
Budd, the dog of the company. He
was buried in a neat coffin, wrapped in
the Stars and Stripes, and the truck
has been handsomely draped in black
and white in his memory.
"A twelve-year-old lad living in
Maine dreamed that he stood by the
death-bed of his mother in Boston, she
then being on a visit to that city.
Thirty-three years after the dream was
fulfilled, not only as to the event and
locality, but as to certain minor details
in the chamber of death.
Annie E. Moore, of Winthrop, bids
fair to be one of Names most valuable
daughters. In 1885, when she was but
thirteen years old, she took the first
premium on butter at the State Fair,
and now she has taken the premium at
the Eastern l1aine Fair for butter made
by girl not over fifteen years of age.
"A two hundred and twenty-five
ounce nugget has been unearthed by
Cinnamon at Hargraves. Australia. The
news of the find leaked out through the
transmission of it to the mint by Chinese
agents. The celebrated Cair nugget of
one cwt. was found at Hargraves in the
year 1852, and recently, a few miles
away at the Maitland bar, 460-ounce
nugget was found.
An elephant belonging to travel
ing circus broke out of the stables at
Rugby, Eng. and bursting open the
door of small cottage adjoining,
squeezed in. unfastened the cupboard.
and dined on a dozen pots of jam, a
gallon of picked onions, a supply of
damsons, joint of meat, loaf of
bread, pound of butter and guam
tity of sweets. 1t took nearly two
hours to get the animal out.
Country fair weddings still rage.
Tile last reported was in Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania, where George
Ryan, young milkman, was married
to nineteen-year-old Mary Stroman in
the presence of 10000 persons. They
were driven to the grand stand in an
open carriage drawn by four black
horses. and their wedding presents in
cluded buggy, a cook stove and sums
of money amounting to $500.
According to DR.. Lucien Howe.
who read paper on the increase of
blindness in the United States at the
last meeting of the American Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Science,
the population of this country increased
thirty per cent. from 1870 to 1880, and
blindness increased during the same
period forty per cent, until now we
have with us $4,000 blind. Contagion
and immigration are set down as among
the chief causes.
Young Charlie Parmalee, of An
sonia. Conn.,, had tremendous scare
the other night. He was walking on
the railroad track after dark and
caught his foot between plank and a
rail at crossing. While trying to get
free he heard an approaching train.
! AS he struggled it came nearer and
nearer until, just as he made up his
mind for death, the headlight showed
him that he was on a switch and not on
the main line. After the train thun-
dered by a Waterman released him.
He was very lame for several days.
In some parts of Germany and
Austria natural pumice stone has been
superseded by an artificial stone, to
which suitable shape can be given
and different degrees of fneness OF
grain obtained, which allows the stone
to be used in all the industries where
natural pumice stone was formerly en-
ployed. The ingredients are white
sand. feldspar and fire clay, mixed in
suitable proportions to obtain the de-
desired composition, and the paste is
poured into plaster molds, being fine
ly placed in fire-clay receptacles and
baked in ovens.
The San Francisco Examiner says
that the steamship City of Sydney,
which recently arrived in that port,
brought $50, 900 worth of Chinese girls
to replenish the slave quarters of that
city. Though such Importation is
against the Chinese Restriction act
against the Contract Labor act, and
against the still older law prohibiting
the immigration of women brought fol-
immoral purposes, their owners will
find no serious difficulty in landing
these costly chattels A few dollar,
for witnesses, something more for q
lawyer, and $3.50 apiece for court fees
will settle the matter.